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Flaring Red Dwarf Star (Illustration)

NASA / JPL · 2017-06-06 · photograph (digital archive)

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This illustration shows a red dwarf star orbited by a hypothetical exoplanet. Red dwarfs tend to be magnetically active, displaying gigantic arcing prominences and a wealth of dark sunspots. Red dwarfs also erupt with intense flares that could strip a nearby planet's atmosphere over time, or make the surface inhospitable to life as we know it.

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Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)illustration exoplanet

Credit lineFlaring Red Dwarf Star (Illustration). NASA/JPL, 2017-06-06. Public domain. ID: PIA21473.

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